Revitalizing Riverbank Informal Settlements
Urban Integration & Revitalization of the Bulbula River
M.X. van Eijs (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Nelson Amorim Mota – Mentor (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
F.R. Schnater – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Design of Constrution)
H.A.F. Mooij – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
E. Louw – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Land Development)
Vanessa Grossman – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
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Abstract
This graduation booklet shows the work that is done during the ‘Global Housing Graduation Studio: Addis Ababa Living Lab’. The goal of this project was to research and design housing solutions to improve the livelihood of Addis Ababa’s urban dwellers. Currently, Addis Ababa is facing the problems which are caused by the ongoing rapid urbanization. One of these problems, and the focus of my graduation project, is the degradation of the rivers and riverbanks. This project proposes a rehabilitation of the riverbank informal settlements of Addis Ababa, as well as implements a strategy to increase the density of the city which also takes into account the existing inhabitants of these riverbanks and offers them a dwelling type that fits their traditional way of life.